Bush (and Gore) SAT Scores

[Bob Schaeffer <bobschaeffer@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Susan Harman wrote:
>
> Anybody know what Dubyas scores were?

According to a Washington Post article published during the campaign
(which also included grades from college transcripts)

                         Bush           Gore

 SAT Verbal Score         566            625

 SAT Math Score           640            730


Note that these scores were attained before SAT "recentering"
(renorming). According to my handy-dandy, College Board copyrighted
score converter,  566 SAT-V pre-recentering translates into between 630
and 640 on the current scale. A 625 SAT-V scales into 680-690. On Math,
recentering would not change either Bush's or Gore's scores.

Bottom line here: Gore's SAT scores look to be typical of Harvard
students of that era (the equivalent of a combined low 1400s today)
while Bush (with high 1200s on the current scale) was a beneficiary of
the most typical kind of "affirmative action" at Yale, so-called "legacy
preference."

Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director
FairTest: National Center for Fair & Open Testing

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